GEOMETRY FINAL
TEURLINGS CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL MRS. LEBLANCS GEOMETRY FINAL STUDY GUIDE
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- PARALLELOGRAM
- QUADRILATERAL WITH TWO PAIRS OF PARALLEL LINES.
- TRANSLATION
- SLIDING OF A SHAPE.
- LATERAL AREA
- THE SUM OF THE AREAS OF THE LATERAL FACES.
- TRANSFORMATION
- CHANGE IN THE POSITION, SIZE, OR SHAPE OF A GEOMETRIC FIGURE.
- SECANT
- A LINE, RAY, OR SEGMENT THAT INTERSECTS A CIRCLE AT TWO POINTS.
- ARC
- PIECE OF THE OUTSIDE OF A CIRCLE.
- SURFACE AREA
- SUM OF LATERAL AREA AND THE AREAS OF THE BASES.
- BASE
- BOTTOM OF A THREE D FIGURE. ALL THE SIDES COME OFF OF.
- TESSELATION
- REPEATING PATTERN OF FIGURES THAT COMPLETELY COVERS A PLANE WITHOUT GAPS AND OVERLAPS.
- EXTREMES
- HELPPP!
- CIRCUMFERENCE
- POINT OF CONCURRENCY OF THE PERPENDICULAR BISECTORS OF A TRIANGLE.
- REGULAR POLYGON
- POLYGON THAT IS BOTH EQUILATERAL AND EQUIANGULAR.
- DIAGONAL
- SGEMENT THAT CONNECTS TWO NONCONSECUTIVE VERTICES.
- PLATONIC SOLID
- FIVE REGULAR POLYHEDRONS
- APOTHEM
- THE DISTACNE FROM THE CENTER OF A FIQURE TO THE SIDE
- SLANT HEIGHT
- DISTANCE FROM THE VERTEX TO THE EDGE OF THE BASE.
- TRAPEZOID
- QUADRALATERAL WITH EXACTLY ONE PAIR OF PARALLEL SIDES, THE BASES.
- AREA
- THE NUMBER OF SQUARE UNITS ENCLOSED BY THE FIQURE.
- SPHERE
- SET OF ALL POINTS IN SPACE A GIVEN A GIVEN DISTANCE FROM A GIVEN POINT.
- RATIO
- COMPARISON OF TWO QUANTITIES BY DIVISON.
- SCALE FACTOR
- THE NUMBER THAT DESCRIBES THE SIZE CHANGE FROM AN ORIGINAL FIGURE TO ITS IMAGE.
- CUBE
- POLYHEDRON WITH SIX FACES, EACH OF WHICH IS A SQUARE.
- TANGENT
- LEG OPPOSITE THE ANGLE / LEG ADJACENT THE ANGLE
- SEMICIRCLE
- HALF A CIRCLE.
- CENTRAL ANGLE
- AN ANGLE WHOSE VERTEX IS THE CENTER OF THE CIRCLE.
- LOCUS
- SET OF POINTS, ALL OF WHICH MEET A STATED CONDITION.
- TRIGONOMETRY
- BRANCH OF MATHAMATICS.
- RADIUS
- ANY SEGMENT WITH ONE ENDPOINT ON THE CIRCLE AND THE OTHER ENDPOINT AT THE CENTER OF THE CIRCLE.
- PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM
- IN A RIGHT TRIANGLE THE SUM OF THE SQUARES OF THE LENGTHS OF THE LEGS IS EQUAL TO THE SQUARE OF THE LENGTH OF THE HYPOTENUSE. A2+B2=C2
- ANGLE OF ELEVATION
- THE ANGLE FORMED BY A HORIZONTAL LINE AND THE LIBE OF SIGHT TO AN OBJECT ABOVE THE HORIZONTAL LINE.
- VERTEX
- WHERE TWO RAYS BEGIN OR MEET WHERE TWO LINE SEGMENTS JOIN OR MEET, WHERE TWO LINES CROSS, OR ANY APPROPRAIATE CONBINATION OF RAYS, SEGMENTS, AND LINES THAT RESULT IN TWO STRAIGHT "SIDES" MEETING AT ONE PLACE.
- CONGRUENT TRIANGLES
- TRIANGLES THAT HAVE THE SAME MEASURE.
- GEOMETRIC MEAN
- NUMBER X SUCH AS A/X = X/B, WHERE A,B AND X ARE POSITIVE NUMBERS.
- CHORD
- A SEGMENT WHOSE ENDPOINTS ARE ON THE CIRCLE.
- MINOR ARC
- ARC THAT IS SMALLER THAN A SEMICIRCLE.
- POLYGON
- CLOSED PLANE FIGURE WITH AT LEAST THREE SIDES THAT ARE SEGMENTS.
- QUADRILATERAL
- POLYGON WITH FOUR SIDES
- INSCRIBED ANGLE
- THE VERTEX OF THE ANGLE IS ON THE CIRCLE ANS THE SIDES OF THE ANGLE ARE CHORDS OF THE CIRCLE.
- REFLECTION
- FLIP A SHAPE
- PYTHAGOREAN TRIPLES
- SET OF THREE NONZERO WHOLE NIMBERS A,B, AND C, THAT SATISFY THE EQUATION A2+B2=C2
- ISOSCLES TRAPEZOID
- TRAPEZOID WHOSE NONPARALLEL OPPOSITE SIDES ARE CONGRUENT.
- MAJOR ARC
- ARC THAT IS LARGER THAN A SEMICIRCLE.
- CROSS PRODUCT
- PRODUCT OF THE EXTREMES OF A PORPORTION IS EQUAL TO THE PRODUCT OF THE MEANS.
- ROTATION
- TURNING OF A SHAPE
- VOLUME
- MEASURE OF THE SPACE A FIGURE OCCUPIES.
- ARC MEASURE
- MEASURE OF A MINOR ARC IS THE MEASURE OF ITS CENTRAL ANGLE. THE MEASURE OF A MAJOR ARC IS 360 MINUS THE MEASURE OF ITS RELATED MINOR ARC.
- CIRCLE
- SET OF ALL POINTS IN A PLANE THAT ARE A GIVEN DISTANCE FROM A GIVEN POINT.
- ANGLE OF DEPRESSION
- THE ANGLE FORMED BY A HORIZONTAL LINE AND THE LIBE OF SIGHT TO AN OBJECT BELOW THE HORIZONTAL LINE.
- CONCENTRIC CIRCLES
- CIRCLES THAT LIE IN THE SAME PLANE AND HAVE THE SAME CENTER.
- FACE
- SURFACES OF A POLYHEDRON.
- SIMILAR FIGURE
- FIGURE HAVING CORRESPONDING ANGLES CONGRUENT AND CORRESPONDING SIDES PROPORTIONAL.
- DIAMETER
- SEGMENT PASSING THROUGH THE CENTER.
- RHOMBUS
- PARALLELOGRAM WITH FOUR CONGRUENT SIDES.
- COSINE
- LEG ADJACENT TO THE ANGLE / HYPOTNUSE
- ALTITUDE (PARALLEOGRAM)
- ANY SEGMENT PERPENDICULAR TO THE LINE CONTAINING THE BASE DRAWN FROM THE SIDE OPPOSITE TO THE BASE.
- SECTOR
- REGION BOUNDED BY TWO RADII AND THERE INTERCEPTED ARC.
- CENTER
- THE MIDDLE OF AN FIGURE. THE DIAMETER CUT IN HALF = THE RADIUS, GIVES YOU THE CENTER.
- RECTANGLE
- PARALLELOGRAM WITH FOUR RIGHT TRIANGLES.
- LINE OF SYMMETRY
- TYPE OF SYMMETRY FOR WHICH THERE IS A REFLECTION THAT MAPS A FIGURE ONTO ITSELF.
- N-GON
- POLYGON WITH N SIDES
- ARC LENGTH
- THE PRODUCT OF THE RATIO MEASURE OF THE ARC/360 SNF THE CIRCUMFERENCE OF THE CIRCLE.
- CYLINDER
- THREE DEMENTIONAL FIGURE EITH TWO CONGRUENT CIRCULAR BASES THAT LIE IN PARALLEL PLANES.
- CONVEX POLYGON
- WHEN NO DIAGONAL COMNTAINS POINTS OUTISDE THE POLYGON.
- ANGLE OF ROTATION
- IS ITS OWN IMAGE FOR SOME ROTATION OF 180*